So far, in this series of articles, we’ve been using Docker to run various services our NestJS application depends on. Some good examples are PostgreSQL and Redis. We can take it a step further and put our NestJS application into a Docker container as well. It can be very useful when looking into deploying our […]
By default, NestJS uses Express under the hood. Moreover, since Express is very popular, NestJS can choose from a broad set of compatible third-party solutions. A significant advantage of NestJS is that it is framework-independent. Instead of using Express, we can use an adapter using another library with a similar request/response pipeline. The most popular […]
Covering our project with tests can help us ensure that our application works as expected and is reliable. While unit tests play a significant role, they are not enough. Therefore, this article explains the significance of integration tests and implements them in a NestJS project that uses raw SQL queries. The significance of integration tests […]
Writing tests is crucial when aiming to develop a solid and reliable application. In this article, we explain the idea behind unit tests and write them for our application that works with raw SQL queries. The idea behind unit tests The job of a unit test is to make sure that an individual part of […]
Troubleshooting a deployed application can be challenging. We can’t use the debugger and stop an application used by other people. Instead, we need to implement logs that we can inspect if we suspect that our API is not working as expected. In this article, we look at the logger built into NestJS and use it […]
Having significant control over the data we store in our database is crucial. One of the ways to do that is to choose suitable column types. We can also use constraints to go further and reject the data that does not match our guidelines. By doing that, we can have an additional layer of security […]
When a browser opens a regular React application, it receives HTML with an empty div and a JavaScript file.
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<html> <head> <script defer src="/static/js/bundle.js"></script> </head> <body> <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript> <div id="root"></div> </body> </html> |
When the browser receives the above response, it runs the JavaScript file that modifies the DOM tree and creates a web page. This is a good solution for many applications but has a few drawbacks. […]
In this series, we’ve often had to filter the records in our database. We can achieve that with a simple WHERE clause.
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SELECT * FROM posts WHERE author_id = 1 |
In this article, we go through different use cases of more advanced filtering. We achieve it by using the WHERE keyword with subqueries. EXISTS In some of the previous parts of this series, […]
It is very common to implement a feature of searching through the contents of the database. In one of the previous articles, we learned how to implement it in a simple way using pattern matching. Today we take it a step further and learn about the data types explicitly designed for full-text search. Text Search […]
As our database grows, we need to put more and more emphasis on performance. A popular approach to dealing with this problem is by implementing indexes. In this article, we look into doing that with raw SQL in a project that does not use ORM. Introducing indexes So far, in this series, we’ve created a […]
